There has been a new beat lurking around the music scene for about 10 years in North America. The new beat, or sound, is called reggaeton (pronounced reggae-tone) and it…
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“The most beautiful guitar in the world.” That is what the sales literature from Gretsch called their Model 6136 White Falcon. Angelic in form and celestial in sound, the White…
The nerds are out for revenge again! Or, at least some street cred, with their latest venture – Nerdcore Hip-Hop. Nerdcore is a subgenre of hip-hop that is created by…
When someone mentions the Wall of Sound, what comes to mind is usually the signature sound of Phil Spector that he created by using dense layers of sound with large…
This music video clip is from the 1986 movie True Stories by the Talking Heads. John Goodman, playing the lovable bachelor Louis Fyne, sings a very good version of the notable Talking…
True music fans will appreciate these rare Beatles photographs. And, if you can’t tell, this photo shoot set the norm for the now hackneyed obligatory band picture. This type of photograph…
American composer John Cage (1912-1992) represented the type of eternally questing artist who, as soon as he solved one problem, moved on to the next problem or series of problems.…
This is a classic music video from Madness, the English ska band from Camden Town, London. They started in 1976 as part of the late 1970s and early 1980s 2Tone ska…
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols is the only studio album by the English punk rock group Sex Pistols. The album was released in October 1977 by Virgin Records.…
